If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about
our history, we must start at first principles. What if the
sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European
international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What
if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not
seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain
understood that ‘peaceful settlement’ was a fiction? If the
1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent,
particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim
it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru
Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and
the centuries long legal position about British claims to the land
far less imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential
historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical
assumptions, with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book
that’s about the present as much as the past. His work shows
exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier
wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why
treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that
the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the
weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.
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